Learn to transfer images to glass Artist teaches two-day silkscreen, glass painting class
Published 8:00 am Monday, March 23, 2015
- A finished glass piece by John Clark.
ASTORIA — Learn to transfer images from photographs or artist renderings onto glass with the silkscreen process, printing with vitreous glass paints, and firing the piece in a kiln to fuse the paint into the glass.
Sherry Boyd-Yost will teach a two-day workshop on Photo Emulsion Silkscreen Printing with Vitreous Glass Paints onto Glass. The class will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29.
Glass painting is the application of strainers colors, silverstains, and enamels made of metal oxides and ground glass pigment. These are mixed with different media to apply an image silkscreened and fired onto glass to show images and design. Glass painting adds a wonderful dimension to leaded and copper foiled works in glass or fused and sculptural glass.
The class will discuss the painting process and view silkscreened examples. Students will learn about equipment, tools, paints, types of glass used, brushes, and kilns used for this type of art.
Participants will have hands-on experience with the glass paint mixing and silkscreen applications. You will learn about firing the glass, and firing schedules, and you will get to fire your experiments.
Students should bring images to be silkscreened on a thumbdrive. Images should be no larger than 8-by-10 inches. If you have a laptop with Photoshop or Corel Pro X bring them. The images will be prepared for optimum printing through use of simple computer graphic design techniques to create the best effects for clearly printing your images with silkscreen.
Instructor Sherry Boyd-Yost has been creating art in glass for 38 years. She worked at Weiser Art Glass from 1977-79 and the Our Glass Company from 1979-81 both in Bellingham, Washington. Boyd-Yost has lived in Spokane, Washington, when she moved back in 1982 and has been working in her own business, Lost Art Originals, Art and Architectural Glass and Tile.
She has been glass painting since 1979, experimenting with glass paint applications fired onto glass. Boyd-Yost studied architectural glass in Kevelaer, West Germany, in 1986, glass fusing with Richard Lalonde in1984, and frit painting and drawing at Bullseye Glass Studio in 2005.
She also attended Pilchuck Glass School, studied with Jochem Poensgen and Lutz Haufschild in 1986 and Joachim Klos. She worked at Pilchuck in 1986 and at the Pilchuck Store in 1987.
Through the years she has created many liturgical and private home glass art commissions. She has taught numerous classes in vitreous glass painting, glass fusing and slumping, draping, frit painting, and photo emulsion silkscreening with vitreous paints on glass. She has also taught stained glass, copper foiled glass and sandblasted glass classes.
This photo emulsion class is open to four to six students.
The class fee is $200 plus a $25 materials fee for a total of $225. Class will be held at Studio 11, located at 453 11th St. Suite A. To sign up, call Jamie Boyd at 503-791-9435.